Job Details:

Salary range: £42,912 - £57,495 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience 
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP 
Hours per week: 36 
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Standard DBS Check  
Closing date: 28 August 2026
Interview date: 10 and 11 September 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF INDEPENDENT LIVES

Adult Social Care in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where our passionate, caring and committed professionals do brilliant work every day.

Mrs D was frail and unwell. Her son was her main carer, but he wasn’t coping. We stepped in to help, but they were hostile to outside agencies. They’d always lived together and were terrified they’d be split up. Our social worker did a great job persuading Mrs D to get hospital treatment and a temporary stay in a care home. In an epic effort throughout COVID, she gained the son’s trust and sorted all the repairs, carers and nurses needed so that Mrs D could come home to live with her son. We also got Mr D regular respite and a personal budget awarded in recognition of him as her carer. After all, there’s nothing more important than living the life you want.

The Role:

As Learning and Development Advisor, you can make your own powerful contribution to our Adult Social Care department. Supporting continuous professional development, you’ll enable our people to be part of even more extraordinary stories of lives changed for the better. As well as embedding best practice for the benefit of Westminster residents, your work to up-skill caring professionals will help make sure everyone here feels confident showing up to work as their whole self.

You’ll be a key member of a supportive team with shared values. Managed by the Principal Social Worker, our Learning Advisors and Continuous Professional Development Officer are driven to support learning and development – and in return, they enjoy the benefits of agile and flexible working.

You’ll have a varied and vital remit – from supporting the design, coordination and delivery of learning programmes, through to providing business and administrative support. Personally providing learning and development support for key initiatives and projects, you’ll draw on best practice methodology to make a real difference. We’ll look to you to identify learning and development needs within Adult Social Care, translate those needs into delivery plans, and help to develop, commission, deliver or facilitate events and interventions. Crucially, you’ll also review the team’s work, lead on completing and submitting data sets and statutory returns, and report on compliance. In a nutshell: you’ll make sure the quality of what we do in Adult Social Care is equal to the passion with which we do it.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

Ideally, you’ll have a range of relevant experience – from coordinating and planning events or managing projects, through to designing, coordinating, delivering and evaluating learning and development programmes. Naturally, experience of working within a social care setting will be a big plus. We’d also prefer you to demonstrate knowledge of commissioning and procurement.

A skilled communicator with a commitment to customer service, you have what it takes to facilitate and present, and to carry out meaningful consultation with people to understand their training needs and gather learning and development requirements.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.